| Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie, Opened (1669) Contributor(s): Digby, Kenelm (Author) |
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ISBN: 1903018706 ISBN-13: 9781903018705 Publisher: Prospect Books (UK) OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | History - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Modern - 17th Century |
| Dewey: 641.594 |
| Series: English Kitchen |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 7.3" (0.80 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many of the recipes are for drinks, particularly of meads or metheglins, but the culinary material provides a remarkable conspectus of accepted practice among court circles in Restoration England, with extra details supplied from Digby's European travels. The editors also include the inventory of Digby's own kitchen in his London house, discovered amongst papers now deposited in the British Library; and they have provided a few modern interpretations of Digby's recipes. The work was last printed in 1910, in a sound edition that is no longer easily available. This new version has several improvements. The editors discuss the role of George Hartman in the compilation of the book, and relate its contents to the work that went out in 1682 over Hartman's own name, The True Preserver and Restorer of Health. There is a full glossary and the reader will be helped by the extensive biographical notes about people named in the text as the source of recipes. |